Now 5 days away from the november 3rd election and kron 4 is your local election headquarters this election season. With a Record Number of people voting early this election season, there are already concerns tonight about missing ballots in the east bay, dozens of voters reported not receiving confirmation that their ballot was received by the Contra Costa County elections division. Kron fours justine waltman here now with details and whether or not foul play is believed to be involved justine. Well Contra Costa County has 37 drop off ballot boxes. But theres one question tonight, and thats the box thats right outside of Richmond City hall, dozens of voters say they dropped off their ballots there on october 12 and the county has not been able to confirm receipt of those ballots so theyre lost and the county doesnt know where they are tonight. The county is telling us this according to the Contra Costa County Elections Office the ballot box and Richmond City all has been inspected by
Evening, everybody im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne tonight, so lets get straight to it. Heres where power shutoffs stand right now this is a pg and e map for right now. And we have Team Coverage tonight we will begin with our Lawrence Karnow in the Weather Center with the latest on the wind event which is really the main concern when it comes to the fire danger tonight. Lawrence yeah, i certainly weve seen some tremendous winds. Well, the strongest wind events of the season so far in fact youre seeing latest image here weve got High Pressure out there in the pacific weve got a low pressure just to our east and really the difference between these 2 which is causing all the gusty winds not only here but around the state southern california. Theyve got the santa ana blowing too. Theyve got an active fire there causing some extremely dangerous conditions right now that ridge building in over the upset in northwest, great basin that low kick into these once these begin
From the bay areas local news stations. Watching kron 4 news. With this race, the clear majority, a nation behind us. Weve gotten over 74 million votes. I repeat that 74 million votes thats more than any president ial ticket has ever gotten in the history of United States of america. Confident of winning thats the tone tonight from former Vice President joe biden is ballot. Counting continues into the wee hours. Thank you for joining 10 everybody on the key will cuts and im grant lotus former Vice President biden spoke briefly this evening from his Campaign Headquarters in wilmington, delaware, and that is where kelli meyer joins us life she will join us live soon im being told were working on that connection. And when we get it squared away, we will go to kelly in wilmington all right meantime we do have a developing story out of the white house President Trumps chief of staff mark meadows has tested. Positive for covid19 2 Senior Administration officials confirmed that meadows is amo
Went on you know as you said we werent sure if it was going to be this he wanted to do which was hoping that he would have a race be called today and then give that victory sponges they were saying an address to the nation happening this evening prime time as there was no other race called he came out here saying that he wanted people to remain calm. He wanted them to be patient and he said let the process work out he also expressed a lot of confidence maybe even more confidence and he has throughout the entire week talking about the states reading and talking about the accomplishments of leading in those states of reading in the state like arizona at a state like georgia. Both that have been reliably red for he also mentioned how he knows people or frustrated with the process moving so slowly. But he said its going to be worth the he also says that hes already begun work not only really the transition but just the work of addressing the pandemic which they did which is true they were
Residents. This is the latest outage map on pg and es website. Those pink triangles indicate areas without power because of the Public Safety power shut offs. Thank you for joining us tonight on this monday night im pam moore welcome everybody, im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne. Pg and e began shutting off power over the weekend ahead of a major wind event and take a look at these wind speeds these were recorded overnight saint helene a reported wind gusts of 89 miles an hour. Healdsburg 83 miles an hour blackhawks 68 hawkeye 61 pittsburgh, 57 Miles Per Hour oakland, 51 Miles Per Hour and the danger unfortunately is still not over and chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking of another round of strong winds. Yeah just a classic offshore wind event developing out there right now weve seen this play out weve seen some of the worst fire conditions and some very bad fire start under these exact kind of conditions right now High Pressure sitting there in the pacific as a ridge bui